Speedo and three other companies dump U.S. swimmer Ryan Lochte in the aftermath of a drunken incident he initially tried to pass off as an armed robbery.

4. TURKEY VOWS TO ‘CLEANSE’ BORDER OF ISLAMIC STATE MILITANTS

Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu says Turkey has become an Islamic State target due to measures it has implemented to stop recruits from crossing into Syria to join the fighting, as well as arrests of hundreds of IS suspects in Turkey.

5. JUDGE BLOCKS OBAMA’S LGBT RULES

A U.S. district judge issues a temporary injunction barring the Obama administration’s order allowing transgender students to use the bathrooms and locker rooms consistent with their chosen gender identity.

6. WHY THRILL-RIDES ARE GETTING MORE SCRUTINY

The death of a boy on a Kansas water slide and a Ferris wheel accident that injured three girls in Tennessee focus attention on lack of amusement ride regulations.

7. COUNTERFEIT PAIN PILLS LIKELY CAME TO PRINCE ILLEGALLY

Exactly how Prince obtained the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl is still unknown four months after he died of an overdose.

8. FIREFIGHTER SHORTAGE HITS CALIFORNIA AS WILDFIRES RAGE

Low pay and larger, more dangerous blazes are leading to staff shortages, state fire officials say.

9. WHAT COULD SHAPE THE WAY MILLENNIALS VOTE

Just 5 percent of young adults say that America is “greater than it has ever been,” while 52 percent feel the nation is “falling behind” and 24 percent believe the U.S. is “failing,” a GenForward poll finds.

10. ETHIOPIA SAYS PROTESTING MARATHONER WILL BE WELCOMED AS A HERO

But Feyisa Lilesa, who made an anti-government gesture at the Rio Games while approaching the finish line, says he may be killed or imprisoned if he ever returns to the East African country.